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Great. People will be protesting hard drives because they're GMOs. 
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When compared to office-dwelling counterparts, managing a remote team has always been a challenge. But at least these days, modern technology helps the cause more than ever. Skype (etc) is your friend
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Interesting: I wrote a similar article about 8 years ago based on my experience with globally disparate teams and outsourcing. Nothing much changes except what we call processes and the technologies we use to deal with the detail.
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Skype/Google Hangout/whatever
Asana is a piece of confusing crap - I spend more time figuring out how to add a task or mark it as completed than I do implementing the task. I still haven't figured out how to get it to not show me completed tasks.
GitHub of course (or its variants)
Slack: Slack is an absolute must (or something very similar to it)
JIRA is, well, cumbersome, pathetic UI, but useful
TeamViewer / whatever remote desktop software you want to use (TeamViewer was pretty sucky but it seems to have improved lately)
What other tools do you remote gals/guys use?
Marc
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I'm curious about your opinion of Slack - I've seen similar shining reviews. What makes you feel that way about it? Is it just "IM with a history", or should I actually take the time to look at it? 
TTFN - Kent
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- IM with history
- Decent search
- Drag and drop images / PDFs / whatever
- markdown-esque code block (single tick for a line, triple tick for a block)
- direct messages to the channel in general
- target messages to one or more people or the whole channel
- public (within the org) channels as well as private chat channels
- iPhone and Android apps (and I suppose Windows, but I wasn't looking)
And most importantly, dead simple, doesn't get in the way, usability.
I'm probably missing some stuff, but the 8 above are what I use all the time.
So, not "just" IM. 
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Cool. Thank you (if I had someone to communicate with - other than the three of us in this cube), definitely something that sounds useful. 
TTFN - Kent
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oh, and #9
I CAN DELETE MY RANTS!!!!
Marc
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Security expert says we're in a cyberwar arms race, and with the Sony attack, North Korea has already taken the first shot at the United States. "We are Samurai... the Keyboard Cowboys... and all those other people out there who have no idea what's going on are the cattle... Moooo."
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Need to provide a link to SchneierFacts.com as reference material.
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Numerous recent blogs and web postings are erroneously claiming that an asteroid will impact Earth sometime between Sept. 15 and 28, 2015. Now I have to cancel that party
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In fact, NASA's Near-Earth Object Observations Program says there have been no asteroids or comets observed that would impact Earth anytime in the foreseeable future.
Riiight. And that one that hit Russia last year, the NEOOP had no idea because it came essentially directly from the direction of the sun, which of course is a blind spot to the NEOOP.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: from the direction of the sun
Which direction is that?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Which direction is that?
Up
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Except at night, when it is down.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Even if there were an imminent asteroid impact, sure they would go and say "of course, you're right, it'll be the end of the world, go have some fun before it's too late". Let's face it: Every serious threat would be denied just as well.
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The founder of Linux explains why he's not thinking about the next 10 years of Linux and why security is all about finding bugs. Linux has security problems?
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I would say they are called users 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Enthusiasm for a technology is understandable, especially if you've had previous success. "All we are saying is give peace a chance"
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Solving today's problem with yesterday's tools might not be that smart - but it is a lot smarter than solving today's problems with tomorrow's tools.
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While I've seen failures in all, I have actually yet to see what I would consider a success with something written in a language other than C++ or C#, at least recently. And by success, I mean what's on the inside as well as what's on the outside.
Farcebook, for example, doesn't count, as according to Quora:
Most of it is written in PHP running on top of some software called HiPHoP they created, which basicly allows php to be compiled and run magnitudes faster.
Marc
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There was a company that sold an MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning) package called BPCS running on the IBM AS/400 and written in RPG.
Around 20 years ago, they were bitten by the Unix/C bug and decided to rewrite their software.
$400 million later (that was their annual sales, all from the RPG-based software, not profit), they went under.
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Vivic wrote: they were bitten by the Unix/C bug and decided to rewrite their software.
Well, that was the problem -- Unix!
Marc
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They still use it where I work.  Even twenty year old interfaces beat the pants off that monstrosity! Just the fact that I'm responding to a BPCS reference requires more 'unwell' emoteicons -
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I remember some other company bought out BPCS.
I am surprised your company hasn't moved to Oracle or SAP.
My employer was using not BPCS but a competing package from Computer Associates.
Consultants came in and recommended SAP.
This was a company with $900 million in sales but our total product list was 400 products, customer list was 1,200.
On top of that with 2 major product lines each trading places every 18 months, we either had 7 customers or 100 customers.
It should have been run off a PC but connectivity for 250+ employees and security considerations dictated a midrange AS/400.
Management blew $40+ million on the SAP implementation!
Such is life.
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